“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” General George S. Patton
Hair soft and black as obsidian,
Scent of sage.
Eyes glow like stars in the night sky,
Toothless or toothful smile –
a moon beam.
Scrunched in a ball, hands over face,
recovering from drug addiction,
trying to overcome homelessness,
“Come back tomorrow, okay?”
You are as gentle as morning star unfurling,
those […]
Filed under: Lisa Tara Eden by akublik Date 19 February, 2009
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“I like shiny things….I used to steal them,”
my friend, weathered from homelessness and drugs,
says to me when we both sit inside a zipped canopy bed at Zaiko Hospital.
My seven year old daughter calls gleefully from inside the bathtub,
“open the towel wide like a bird’s wings that fly.”
At supper time, my ten year old son reflects […]
Filed under: Lisa Tara Eden by akublik Date 16 February, 2009
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